Selmar Bühling

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Selmar Bühling (* July 21, 1895 in Haferungen ; † May 31, 1977 in Berlin (West) ) was a German lawyer and politician , founder and from 1960 to 1977 chairman of the association " Heimattreue Erfurter ".

Life

Selmar Bühling was born in Haferungen in the county of Hohnstein in the Prussian administrative district of Erfurt in 1895. He began studying in Strasbourg in 1914 and became a member of the Alsatia Gymnastics Association in Strasbourg . During the First World War he was a lieutenant and company leader, awarded the Iron Cross, second and first class. He was wounded several times, was taken prisoner by the British and lost his left arm. After the war, Bühling resumed his law studies in Göttingen , became a member of the Mündenia gymnastics club and received his doctorate . After passing the assessor exam, he worked as a legal advisor at an Erfurt bank and then settled in Erfurt as a lawyer in 1924 . Bühling married Margarete Gercken and the marriage had two children. In 1929 he became a notary and later elected to the board of the bar association of the OLG district of Naumburg . Bühling also defended political defendants during World War II .

In 1945, Bühling was able to induce the US occupation forces to readmit lawyers in Erfurt. He successfully represented the Augustinian community and the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt against unjustified claims by the city and state of Thuringia. Bühling supported the Augustinian community and the reconstruction of the heavily bomb-damaged St. Augustine's Church . His commitment to persecuted people in the Soviet Occupation Zone led to the NKVD interrogating him and, after hiding for a week with Pastor Siegfried Hotzel in the Augustinian parsonage in Erfurt, he had to flee to the West with the help of friends at the end of 1949.

In West Berlin , Bühling became a judge , and in 1954 a district court director and chairman of a civil chamber. He also worked on the investigative committee of freedom lawyers . Bühling successfully litigated against an impending expropriation of the "Erfurter Hütte" in the Alps by the SMAD . Bühling published many articles for the notaries and, since 1957, has edited the "Voluntary Jurisdiction Form Book" in seven editions. Selmar Bühling died of a heart attack in Berlin in 1977 and was buried at the side of his wife in the Berlin-Wilmersdorf cemetery. "Heimattreue Erfurter" scattered earth from Erfurt into his grave.

After the political " turnaround " in the early 1990s, it was not possible to name the street after Bühling in Erfurt.

Political activity

  • In 1953, Bühling founded the Berlin regional association of the federal Landsmannschaft Thuringia , and
  • 1954 the Berlin regional association of the Central German Landsmannschaften (chairman until his death in 1977).
  • With an appeal in 1960, Bühling founded the association “ Heimattreue Erfurter ”, of which he was first chairman until 1977. As a result of this appeal, the names of over 27,000 Erfurt residents in the west had already been collected by the mid-1970s. Mainly in Mainz , the association held well-attended biennial home meetings of the "Exile Erfurt". Under the responsible editing of Bühling, the association "Heimattreue Erfurter" published the Erfurt Heimatbrief , which appeared twice a year from 1961 onwards .

Awards

  • Iron Cross, second and first class in the First World War
  • Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1968
  • Honorary member of the Bundeslandmannschaft Thüringen eV and holder of its medal and golden badge of honor

Assessment of personality

Bühling firmly believed in the reunification of Germany and worked consistently for it. "What I valued most about him were his pure character, his great knowledge, his truthfulness and his unconditional loyalty." (Carl Haußknecht 1977)

literature

  • Carl Haußknecht: Dr. Selmar Bühling passed away . In "Erfurter Heimatbrief" No. 35, December 1977
  • Siegfried Hotzel : A forty year friendship. Memories of Dr. Selmar Bühling . In "Erfurt Heimatbrief" No. 36, May 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Famous (and Notorious) Corporates; Letter B. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ "The love for the city remained" unbroken "in" exile ". Thuringian General, May 31, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Bühling, Selmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, founder and chairman of the association "Heimattreue Erfurter"
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Oats
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1977
Place of death Berlin (West)